Filmography

• Wait Until Death (1995)
• Dreams of Hanif (1997)
• The Nest (2000)
• Way Back Home (2003)
• Hope Dies Last in the War (2007)
• Rupban - the Beautiful (2008)
• Wagah (2009)
• Games & Peace (2011)
• New Gift (2012)
• Unfolding the Pata Story (2013)
• Let There Be Light (2016)
• Our Grandfathers' Home (2017)
• Swimming Through the Darkness (2018)
• Waste Band (2019)

Awards

• Supriyo's The Nest won The Best Environment/Conservation/Preservation Film at the 48th National Awards in 2001 for painstaking effort on capturing the uncompromising dedication of Midnapore's Jatin Mahato - a heroic conservator and protector of migratory and endangered birds. The film also won the BFJA Award for the best documentary and was in the Indian Panorama. 
• Way Back Home won the BBC Audience Award for the best documentary in Commonwealth Film Festival, International Jury Award at the Golden Conch for the Best Long Documentary and Best Film of the Festival Award in Mumbai International Film Festival. It was the winner of the Best Film on Social Issues at the 51st National Awards for its recounting of a remarkable journey to a homeland lost forever, as a result of Partition. A family driven out of East Pakistan during Partition, undertakes a journey back after fifty years to their "homeland". The journey eventually turns into a story of painful memories, lost relationships and the madness of Partition- all achieved through a touching personal narrative. The film also won the BFJA Critic's Award for Best Direction.
• Hope Dies Last in the War won the Best Non-Feature Film award. As a producer and director, Supriyo won two Swarna Kamals (Golden Lotus). The citation stated that the award went for "the sensitive albeit searching exploration of those in prisons in alien countries; a complex polyphony of variegated voices, the film is an endeavour to find hope in the midst of a struggle against despair". Saikat Ray won Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus) for Best Editing for the creative blending of various elements of the past and present, as also for its seamless flow of images that evoke genuine emotions. The film also won the Indian Documentary Producer's Association's (IDPA) Gold Award for Best Documentary Cinematography.
• Swimming Through the Darkness won the Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus) for Best Exploration/Adventure Film (including sports) at the 66th National Awards. It also won the Satyajit Ray Golden Award for the best documentary in 2nd South Asian Short and Documentary Festival. The film had its world premiere at Busan International Film Festival, 2019 (in competition) and was featured in the list of 50 unmissable films of the year by asianfilmfestival.com.
• Wagah won the Berlin Today Award at the Berlin Film Festival, Best Short Documentary at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Grand Prix at Bilbao International Film Festival, Best Short Documentary at the Abu Dhabi International Film Festival, Diploma of Honour at the Krakow Film Festival, Audience Award at the Tampere International Film Festival, Best Documentary at the National Geographic Award, Flickerfest, Best Documentary at the Saguenay International Short Film Festival, Best Documentary Award at the Heart of Gold International Film Festival, Jury Award at Corto-Tokyo, Honorable Mention at the River Run Film Festival, Best Short Documentary and Young Jury Award at the Faito Doc Fest, Best Foreign Film at the Human Rights Art and Film Festival in Australia, Best Documentary Award at Docuart, Zagreb, Jury's Special Mention at the Huesca International Film Festival, Honorary Mention at the Exground Film Festival, Wiesbaden.

Did You Know?

According to Supriyo, after watching Wagah, German filmmaker Wim Wenders had said it is a manifesto against walls that divides people. Way Back Home is the first Indian documentary that was commercially released. Legendary Indian director Mrinal Sen had said it is "one of the finest films I have ever seen". French documentarian Nicholas Philibert had described it as "pure cinema".

Research by: Deepanjana Sarkar

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